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There is a long way between I’m fine with it and the response was disastrous. I’m not fine with 1 person dying of COVID-19, are you?
Saying it could have been much better acknowledges that there were issues.
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There is a long way between I’m fine with it and the response was disastrous. I’m not fine with 1 person dying of COVID-19, are you?
Saying it could have been much better acknowledges that there were issues.
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Without the gymnastics and deflection, may you please give us a few adjectives that you feel appropriately describe the Administrations response? Also, you talked about ”not being fine with one person dying”. May you please tell us how you feel about the administrations response.
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Hence the word "may."
The speculation is if the administration shot down Kushner's plan purposefully because they thought covid would only devastate blue states. Which, I agree, the information in the article doesn't concretely answer if that was the case. Which is why I said "may." (although it does align with the words and actions of this administration on a host of other issues)
But my bigger point, the 99% of it, was that there have been many big mistakes made by the administration at multiple steps. These are all well-documented.
Another thing to keep in mind -- this is all information that was readily available to the public. The question that is unknown is how much additional information did this administration have? They knew at least as much as the NT Pandemic thread, but they obviously are privy to more info, more experts, and more resources. So the disaster we're pointing out is a bare minimum. There could be even worse things we're not aware of.
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I feel like the administration did okay, based on the information known at the time, but they could have done much better.
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Likewise, they may have been privy to information that painted a better picture than what is known to us.
But there’s really no point in going down the speculation rabbit hole.
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Are there other prominent countries that you feel did worse than the United States? If so, which countries? A little bit on why you feel they did worse may be useful as well
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I don’t have a knee jerk answer. Nor do I really which countries to deem prominent.
What I will say is that America is unique. And I think comparing the performance to others in this regard is difficult due to our testing capability.
For instance, I wouldn’t compare New York City’s response to Birmingham’s. Because they are very different.
If you give me a specific country for comparison it would be easier for me to give you a direct answer. I don’t want to appear like I’m dancing around.
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I said “prominent” to avoid a scenario like what you said about NYC and Birmingham but on a country level. I mean surely, the US cant be the only country with that predicament.
My clarifying response would be any countries with similar testing capabilities to the United States. However, you may think that doesn't exist...
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If you give me a specific country I can give you an easy better or worse answer.
But I don’t really know of another country testing/reporting cases at the level the US is. But if you do, enlighten me.
Ah, so we get the classic "could/should do better" response with Trump. It's actually just a vague boilerplate response that could be applied to anything. We've seen you criticize people on NT more than we've seen you say anything about Trump.
Despite Trump holding rallies that ignored guidelines and put people at risk, you will continue to defend and support him. Just as you claim you're against voter suppression and continue to defend and support the people that suppress minority votes.
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Like the pig that he is, dwalk will do and say anything for a little extra $$.
anyone with any sense knows this admins response is a failure.
anyone with any sense knows this admins response is a failure.
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Mr. Dwelkshowitz is trying to change the topic of how horrible the response was.
"I don’t really know of another country testing/reporting cases at the level the US is." is the failure..... That's is literally because of the horrible response
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Man what
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How could you parody that? No wonder comedians stay away.
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From a scientific / public health / policy standpoint, it is absolutely necessary to second guess and to scrutinize.
From an information standpoint, they had whatever information we had, plus more. This doesn't mean their picture was "better" or "rosier" than ours. It means they could make guesses that were closer to the truth than we could. Now, over the past 6 months, we have more data so we know what the truth is, so we're in a position to scrutinize what the administration has done.
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So, like, Monday morning quarterbacking?
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You just replay the video on loop
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This is the man Delk be dropping it low for on the daily.
Imagine having such little self respect that you think this man is worthy of leading the country you live in. Thinking this man is worthy of having the benefit of the doubt on every issue.
Brahs, father your sons, and buy them a bottle of Palmer's Cocoa butter.
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i don't think this has been posted, but it's some good news
hope that judge is investigated and buried
hope that judge is investigated and buried
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Can't wait to get this orange monkey out the paint in November.
Ol girl on Twitter got the formula.
Don't need to parody or write jokes, all the material is already there.
Just dub this fools audio over any comedian looking the part of a confused idiot and you've got gold.
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what an absolute clown. what a waste of 5 minutes to try and score political points and miserably fail.
maybe you should want more than "okay" from your elected representatives. quit thinking of politics like sports for a second, drop the "my team does no wrong" attitude, and recognize that our country has absolutely botched their response to this pandemic. Instead of a uniformed response from the top down, the president himself continued to downplay the virus, said it would disappear, the heat would kill it, it would go away, undermined his own national health advisors, retweeted conspiracy theorists, and continues to hold rallies while not requiring them to wear masks.
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We need to get the word out to people that they need to mail their ballots in as soon as possible.
A Trump crony is determine to low down mail delivery so ballots won't reach on time.
A Trump crony is determine to low down mail delivery so ballots won't reach on time.
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More like doing science, dWinston Smith.
The shutdown has made people think they can live their life being alienated because they have their imaginary online political family. Once America eventually gets back to normal and all the people they "cleaned house" with on social media avoid them in real life they're gonna wish their fake patriotism wasn't so aggressive.
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